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. ILPETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGYON D C aient @time ANDKWILLIAM H` PERLEY, 0F SAME PLAGE.V

"JOSEPH A. PERLEY, OE LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO-HIMSELF Letters Patent-1ro. 97,802, dated Decembe- 141869. 4

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The Schedule referxedto in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.4

To all persons to whom these presents/may' come:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. PERLEY, of Lynn,

" i of the county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts,

l the whole being substantially as hereinafter explained,

and also as exhibitedjn the said drawings.

In such drawings-. f A A denotes the twolhandles' of the implement. lhe duplex knife, shown at (B, has, two cutting,- edges, arranged as shown-at b b, iAtbcing fastened, by

fmeans ofscrews c c, to the handlesA A', so as to form with'- them a stock.

` or implements.

l' AEach otr' these handlesris shaped-or provided with inclined beds d d at its 'inner part, to receive and give support to the next adjacent ends'or parts of two movable bars or throat-pieces, C O, which are fastened to the handles by clamp-screws e e e e, that screw into the throat-pieces7 and pass through slots f f j' f, made in the handles transversely thereof.A

.With the double-edged knife, and the handles and two throat-pieces constructed and combined or nrranged' as represented, one of 4the knife-edges, with its throat-piece, may be adj usted .to make a tiue cut, and' the other knife-edge andthroat-pieee may be arranged to. make a coarser or coarse out, the same ad-4 mitting of theimplement being used both for paring down, or rough cutting audfor finishing a heel, a work usually accomplished heretofore by two separate s'haves I claim the combination of the two handles, the

double-edged knife,V and the two throat-pieces, subl stantially inmaner as specified. A A A JOSEPHvA. PERLEYY.

Witnesses: H. EDDY,

S.- N. PIPER. 

